The only way to do in building up the Navy is to keep on with it.
I ask for a navy, primarily, because it is the surest means of keeping peace; and also because if war does come, surely ...
Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situatio...
The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy.
If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation.
We have met to commemorate a mighty pioneer feat, a feat of the old days, when men needed to call upon every ounce of co...
Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him.
It is a good thing to cheer her, but it is a better thing to see that we keep on building other ships like her, but even...
We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up th...
Whether we wish it or not we have to be a great power; we have to play a great part.
I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in t...
I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it...
I pity no man because he has to work.
I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.
Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.
It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors, f...
This is to be my last day in California, and I leave the State with the liveliest appreciation of the courtesy with whic...
I am glad to meet all of you.
